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1970 – 1974
Bratislava Conservatory (violin – Viliam Kořínek, composition – Andrej Očenáš, conducting – Kornel Schimpl, Gerhard Auer)
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1974 – 1979
Academy of Performing Arts in Prague (conducting – Václav Neumann, Josef Veselka, Alois Klíma, Bohumír Liška etc.)
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1974 – 1979
artistic director of the University Artistic Ensemble at Charles University in Prague
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1975
master course (Igor Markevitch)
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1976
master course (Franco Ferrara) and others
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from 1977
continuously conductor of the Prague Chamber Ensemble Canticorum iubilo
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1979 – 1980
Hochschule für Musik und Darstellende Kunst in Vienna (conducting – Otmar Suitner)
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1979 – 1986
conductor of Czeechoslovak Radio Symphony Orchestra in Bratislava
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from 1984
conductor and 1986 – 1991 conductor-in-chief of the Slovak National Theatre Opera
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1985 – 1991
conductor of Slovak Philharmonic
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1993 – 1996 and 2004 – 2007
conductor-in-chief of the National Theatre Opera in Prague
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from 1994
permanent guest conductor at Opera North and Northern Philharmonic, Leeds
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2000 – 2003
permanent guest conductor at Yomiuri Nippon Symphonic Orchestra, Tokyo
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from 2000
permanent guest conductor at the English National Opera in London
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2001 – 2004
permanent guest conductor at the Bavarian State Opera in Munich
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2004 – 2007
conductor-in-chief of the State Chamber Orchestra, Žilina
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2006 – 2007
conductor-in-chief of the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, Bratislava
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2006
leader of the National Moravian-Silesian Theatre Opera in Ostrava
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2007/2008
director of the Slovak National Theatre Opera
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2010
director of the State Opera, Prague
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2011
conductor-in-chief of the State Chamber Orchestra, Žilina